http://eargasm.ccpblogs.com/2008/06/06/the-tao-of-feldman/ Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:54:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://eargasm.ccpblogs.com/2008/06/06/the-tao-of-feldman/comment-page-1/#comment-4181 Louis Howe Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:25:21 +0000 http://eargasm.ccpblogs.com/2008/06/06/the-tao-of-feldman/#comment-4181 I was grateful for this review: the experience of sitting through this piece was unlike anything I have ever done, and then we all left and said little, and I could have used a debriefing session. It is good to hear from someone else who was there. I have twice sat through six hour Javanese gamalon/shadow puppet shows, but while those were wonderfully magical trance-like experiences, this piece gave me an experience of time i simply have no words to describe, except 'time out of joint'. I did have one musical question--and I know very little about music--but during the piece I kept being reminded of one of the movements from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time; it was in the piano chords especially. Perhaps there was a third person being honored? Louis Howe, Carrollton, GA. I was grateful for this review: the experience of sitting through this piece was unlike anything I have ever done, and then we all left and said little, and I could have used a debriefing session. It is good to hear from someone else who was there. I have twice sat through six hour Javanese gamalon/shadow puppet shows, but while those were wonderfully magical trance-like experiences, this piece gave me an experience of time i simply have no words to describe, except ‘time out of joint’. I did have one musical question–and I know very little about music–but during the piece I kept being reminded of one of the movements from Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time; it was in the piano chords especially. Perhaps there was a third person being honored? Louis Howe, Carrollton, GA.

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